Deactivate User

[Nobody's Hero]

When you select "deactivate" from the sam user menu, and select " leave files in place", what actually happens? Because, after deactivating a user, change the password, then try to log in as that user, I am successful. I thought I would see something like "user id has been suspended, unsuccessful".

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

you can lock the user using

#passwd -l


Thanks

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

SAM just nulls out the password, so when you change the password, you're defeating SAM's efforts.

Pete

[Rainer von Bongartz]

When you deactivate a user SAM set an '*' into the password file of /etc/passwd to indicate the user is suspended

When changing the password you overwrite this setting and the user is activated again.

Regards
rainer

[Fragon]

BTW, would anyone tell me , if I translate my system to Trusted system, what happens then?
Thanks!

-Gerald-

[Arockia Jegan]

Robert,

I'm pretty sure it's happening on non-trusted system. In the non trusted system changing the password will reactivate the deactivated user account. BUT in the trusted system it won't happen.